Word: graffs
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Finally, what are the implications for the technological society? Carter likened the present need for energy conservation to earlier shifts from burning wood to coal, then later from coal to oil and natural gas. Columbia University Historian Henry Graff sees the current crisis more grandly, calling it "the Pearl Harbor of the Industrial Revolution." He is not certain that Americans, more than people anywhere else, are ready to meet the challenge. "Heroic periods are easier to read about than to live through," he notes...
...Graffs gloomy view, "Man is by nature a predatory animal?he uses what's available." He contends that waste has been built into the values of an ever-expanding American economy. In the past, technology provided answers for the problems it created. Now Graff fears that there may be no wondrous new energy source when the old forms...
When Jefferson returned to crowded Philadelphia last month, he was impressed anew with the bustle of the Colonies' largest city (population about 40,000). To get some quiet, he took lodgings in the new three-story house of a bricklayer named Jacob Graff, at the corner of Market and Seventh streets. Jefferson has the second floor?a bedroom and parlor with stairs and a passageway between them. Rent: 35 shillings a week. He dines...
...doubles matches proved no more troublesome for Radcliffe's powerhouse. The veteran duo of Katherine Fulton and Andi Okamura dispatched Bambi Graff and Nanci Miller by double 6-2 scores. Rita Funaro, playing with a new partner, Ann Koufman, at second doubles, beat Conni Mentana and Val Troyansky...
Last week the wounded environmentalists lamely struggled to explain their polluted portfolios. Argued E.D.F.'s Berkeley director, Tom Graff: "We can't invest in companies doing environmentally beneficial things, companies in solar energy or scrap iron, for example. If we did, it would look like we were promoting our economic interest when we took a stand on an issue." Added Colburn Wilbur, executive secretary of the Sierra Club Foundation: "Every time we drive, fly or eat we are helping the polluters. We don't have a pure investment portfolio. I don't think we could...